{"id":579,"date":"2019-10-18T06:50:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=579"},"modified":"2019-10-17T19:15:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T02:15:05","slug":"save-the-crash-test-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/save-the-crash-test-dummies\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Crash-test Dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/crashtestdummies_0-595x735.jpg?resize=525%2C649&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"649\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9852\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2VRi2a6\">Save the Crash-test Dummies<\/a><br \/>\nby Jennifer Swanson (Author) and TeMika Grooms (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Cars take us to work. To school. To soccer practice. To the grocery store and home again. Can you imagine a world without them? It\u2019s not easy! One of the reasons we can use cars so much in our everyday lives is because they are safe to drive. But that hasn\u2019t always been the case. If it weren\u2019t for the experiments conducted over decades that involved all kinds of crash test volunteers&#8211;dead, alive, animal, or automated&#8211;cars as we know them might not be around. And then how would you get to school?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/crashtestdummies_in1.jpg?resize=500%2C667&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9850\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/crashtestdummies_in2.jpg?resize=525%2C645&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"645\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9851\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jcrtCyjZ9R8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jcrtCyjZ9R8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book trailer<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save the Crash-test Dummies by Jennifer Swanson (Author) and TeMika Grooms (Illustrator) Booktalk: Cars take us to work. To school. To soccer practice. To the grocery store and home again. Can you imagine a world without them? It\u2019s not easy! One of the reasons we can use cars so much in our everyday lives is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/save-the-crash-test-dummies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Save the Crash-test Dummies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-9l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1707,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/bounce-a-scientific-history-of-rubber\/","url_meta":{"origin":579,"position":0},"title":"Bounce!: A Scientific History of Rubber","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"November 1, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Bounce!: A Scientific History of Rubber by Sarah Albee (Author) and Eileen Ryan Ewen (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: Elementary school readers will discover that early balls didn't bounce; that people in the rainforest made waterproof gear from rubber thousands of years before Europeans got into the act; and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;STEM Friday Round-up&quot;","block_context":{"text":"STEM Friday Round-up","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/category\/stem-friday-round-up\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/bouncerubberfc-960x960.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/bouncerubberfc-960x960.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/bouncerubberfc-960x960.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":547,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/why-dont-cars-run-on-apple-juice-real-science-questions-from-real-kids\/","url_meta":{"origin":579,"position":1},"title":"Why Don&#8217;t Cars Run on Apple Juice?: Real Science Questions from Real Kids","author":"@roberta3","date":"September 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"At Growing with Science blog today we are highlighting Why Don't Cars Run on Apple Juice?: Real Science Questions from Real Kids by Kira Vermond and illustrated by Suharu Ogawa. 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